Development, Validation, and Implementation of a Clinic Nurse Staffing Guideline

Debra Jean Deeken1, Douglas Wakefield, Cora Kite

  • 1Author Affiliations: Director (Ms Deeken), Ambulatory Patient Care Services; Director (Dr Wakefield), Center for Health Care Quality; Clinical Nursing Supervisor, Surgery Clinic, (Ms Kite); Manager (Ms Linebaugh), Outpatient Clinics and Infusion Unit, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center; Manager (Ms Mitchell), Dermatology Department and Clinics; Business Manager (Ms Parkinson), Ambulatory Care Administration; and Professor (Dr Misra), Nephrology, University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia.

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